[birdky] Re: Odd duck
- From: Donald Andrews <progotti@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: r_ocarra@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 22:23:30 -0400
ducks are probably the greatest family of hybrid potential. Here is a
similar forum of looking at the same sort of bird and their ideas. Good
luck. http://www.ilbirds.com/index.php?topic=32710.0
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Ronan O'Carra <r_ocarra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My guess would be that it's a hybrid, maybe a mallard scaup hybrid.
> Ronan O'Carra
> Lexington
>
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> > From: lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [birdky] Odd duck
> > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 19:58:24 -0500
> > To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >
> > Yesterday while I was at Parsons Pond, right taking my Lesser Scaup
> pictures that I mistakenly called Greater Scaup, an SUV stopped up on the
> road. I assumed it was some local puzzled by me walking across a muddy bean
> stubblefield, but it was Steve and Debbie Hamilton out birding. In
> conversation, I learned from them that an odd duck had been spotted at Swan
> Lake in Dunbar Cave State Park, Clarksville, TN. Although I didn't see any
> recent TN bird reports from Montgomery County, Alison and I stopped by
> there today to see what we could see. There was a duck there that resembled
> a female scaup, but with orange where there should be white. It was napping
> beside 2 Ruddy Ducks. Several Coots swam back and forth nearby. It took a
> long time to catch it with its head out from under its wing but I finally
> got a few passable pictures of it. Amy Wallace, the park naturalist, said
> that today was the first day she had seen it and that she didn't know about
> other TN birders scouting for an odd duck there. I don't know for sure that
> this is the duck that got a few TN birders plus a certain non reporting KY
> birder interested, but here is what I got -
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/57339816@N08/
> > Frank Lyne
> > frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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